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SM M1417. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush
Roman roof tile-end or antefix
Undated
Terracotta, cast from a mould
Height: 24cm
Width: 16cm
Width: 16cm
Museum number: M1417
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 483
On display: Drawing Office - also known as the Students Room (pre-booked tours only)
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Curatorial note
Above a double fillet either side of an egg and tongue moulding is a honeysuckle palmette pattern. This piece formed part of the roof ornament of a Roman house and is roughly cast from a worn mould.
Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no.85.
Literature
Tatham: Etchings, 14; Drawings, 3.
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